Day: June 1, 2017

In a previous blog post, we discussed the numerous benefits gardening provides for senior citizens. Of course, senior citizens aren’t the only population of people who stand to benefit from spending time in the garden. Children, teenagers, and adults can all reap benefits from working with the land. Research suggests that children can especially benefit from the lessons instilled by growing plants; gardening, child psychologists and educators say, is beneficial to childhood development and a valuable educational resource. That might be why many elementary schools have gardening clubs, or why science classes are increasingly using gardening projects as discovery tools. No doubt, the lessons we all gleam from gardening start when we’re children and build throughout our entire lives. Cool, right?